]]>http://sweepingzen.com/a-conversation-on-zen-buddhism-with-bill-porter/feed/0Porter, Bill (a.k.a. Red Pine)http://sweepingzen.com/bill-porter-a-k-a-red-pine/
http://sweepingzen.com/bill-porter-a-k-a-red-pine/#respondWed, 23 Dec 2009 12:49:40 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1033Red Pine, the pen name of Bill Porter, is a well-known translator of Buddhist sutras and poetry. Drafted in 1964 he enlisted voluntarily and did a three-year tour with the Army in Germany. Next Porter studied anthropology at the University of California in Santa Barbara and then at Columbia University, where he dropped out halfway ...